Final Lord

Chapter 230 Extinction of the Clan
When Elder Evil Eye dragged his battered body back to Evil Eye Village, the sharp whirring of metal blades scraping against each other echoed through the treetops on the night breeze. He gazed at the scattered fluorescent mushroom houses before him—the caps, held together with white resin, now gleamed a sickly, pale green, as if foreshadowing the impending upheaval of his people.

"Elder Sixteen Eyes! What happened to your tentacles—" The young evil eye on night watch cried out in shock when he saw the elder's tentacles break off, but the elder suddenly stuffed his mouth with the remaining tentacles, and viscous fluid seeped out from the tightly twisted gaps.

Madness and helplessness flickered in Elder Evil Eye's sixteen eyes. He said listlessly, "Sound the alarm! Everyone assemble!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

As the last echo of the bronze bell was absorbed by the moss, more than three hundred evil eyes were already crowded together in the square in the center of the village.

They watched in horror as the elder stood on the altar where the White Spirit God was worshipped. His once plump body was now covered with whip marks, and his two proud main tentacles dangled like rotten ropes.

“Listen, villagers,” the elder’s voice sounded as if it had been sanded clean, “the White Spirit God already knows what we have done in the past…”

Elder Evil Eye solemnly recounted everything that had just happened, including what had occurred when he met Wang Bufu.

The terrified villagers gradually fell silent, replaced by a silent fear.

“We are sinners, and our sin is blasphemy.” Elder Evil Eye’s voice trembled.

"As your elder, I have an inescapable responsibility. I will resign from the position of elder and hand it over to a more suitable member of the tribe."

You may hate me, you may insult me; this is what I deserve.

Upon hearing Elder Evil Eye's words, the Evil Eyes immediately began to whisper among themselves:

"I shouldn't have listened to the elder. Now I've angered Bai Lingshen. What should I do?"

“If we are driven out, the Church of No Gold will torture us to death, and we will be forced to live in fear for the rest of our lives.”

"It was all the elders' own actions that caused our entire clan to be punished!"

"Oh, you can't say that. The elder was doing it for our own good. We were all involved in secretly hiding the branches and fruits."

A very small number of passionate individuals were discussing this in hushed tones, using telepathy:

"That outsider must have used some tricks to bewitch Bai Lingshen, otherwise why would Bai Lingshen be angry with us when she is so biased towards us?"

"That's right, it's all that outsider's fault. How could he possibly be friends with Bai Ling Shen..."

A moment later, an exceptionally burly man with the Evil Eye stepped forward and said to the Evil Eye Elder, “Elder! At this point, it’s meaningless who is right and who is wrong. Our blasphemy was committed by the entire clan, and the White Spirit God cannot punish only you. The most important thing now is not to investigate who is responsible, but to find a way to make amends.”

The discussion among the Evil Eye Clan immediately subsided, and everyone looked at the Evil Eye Elder, clearly agreeing with his viewpoint.

"Yes." Elder Evil Eye nodded vigorously and said:
"The White Spirit has given us one last chance. We must obtain Lord Kate's forgiveness in order to be qualified to continue to believe in Him."

Lord Kate has set three conditions!
First, all resources embezzled from the White Spirit Forest must be returned to the White Spirit God.

Secondly, all the Evil Eye Clan members submitted to him and joined his ranks.

Third, all members of the Evil Eye Clan must begin combat training, focusing on methods of fighting monsters, so that we can learn how to fight for the White Spirit God.

Only if these three requirements are met will he be willing to come to the White Spirit Forest. As the elder repeated the king's unyielding demands, the Evil Eye Clan members in the square were all shocked.

Especially when the elder mentioned "combat training," many of the female evil eyes' tentacles convulsed as if they were having an epileptic seizure. She had just used the trick of feigning illness to evade the defense mission against the rootworm swarm last year.

Most of the Evil Eye Clan members are cowards who fear death; otherwise, they wouldn't have been hiding in the White Spirit Forest, afraid to go out.

“This is impossible!” One of the evil eyes waved its tentacles. “Why should we bow down to humans? They don’t care about the lives of us evil eyes; they only see us as cannon fodder and slaves.”

The muscle fibers beneath the evil eye's skin glowed an angry scarlet, its spiritual energy rapidly spreading, seeking to infect its people and make them share its rage.

However, its spiritual energy suddenly faded the moment it touched the elder.

Silver runes suddenly flashed in the eyes of Elder Evil Eye! Those runes wriggled in the elder's pupils like maggots.

His sixteen pupils suddenly shot towards the clamoring evil eye, piercing through its head.

For a moment, the entire square fell into a deathly silence. All the evil eyes huddled together in terror.

They all stared at Elder Evil Eye in disbelief. To become an elder, Elder Evil Eye was naturally the strongest among them. Yet, he had always been gentle with them, like a kind old grandfather. He rarely punished his clansmen, and even when he did, he used methods that were harmless and ineffective.

But now, without any discussion, he directly killed a member of his clan!
In the deathly silence, the elder's broken tentacles suddenly stood up strangely, sticky with mucus, supporting his body.

He said in an icy tone, “Lord Kate is right. You still don’t understand the situation. The crime we committed is blasphemy! The price of blasphemy is not a fight, but the extinction of our race!”

"Extinction of our race!" Elder Evil Eye slammed his tentacles on the altar, shouting hoarsely, "The White Spirit God may not kill us, but will only abandon us and drive us out."

But I assure you, the moment we leave White Spirit Forest, Lord Kate will lead his mighty army to wipe us out.

The White Spirit God is benevolent, but he isn't! He is the White Spirit God's friend, and he will eliminate us, these vengeful threats, for the White Spirit God. He won't allow us to spread information about the White Spirit World. Do you understand?

Elder Evil Eye said with deep sorrow:

"The conditions he presented to us were not for discussion, but for notification. We only had two choices: the entire tribe accepted them, or our tribe was wiped out."

Seeing that his people were still somewhat bewildered, Elder Evil Eye sighed and said, "Lord Kate said that if we do not accept his conditions, he will kill all the Evil Eyes who are taller than a cartwheel."

One of the female evil eyes trembled. Well, that's alright, she was petite, only a little shorter than a wheel.

"Then, right in front of me, he laid the wheel sideways on the ground."

Oh... the light in Mother Evil's eyes has faded.

"This is what it means to be wiped out and exterminated."

Only at this moment did these pampered Evil Eyes truly feel fear. Apart from the Evil Eye Elders, there was not a sound in the plaza.

(End of this chapter)